Patrick Stirling
Personal information
Date of birth 5 November 1862
Place of birth Kilmarnock, Scotland
Date of death 1925 (aged 63)
Place of death Doncaster, England
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1885−???? Doncaster Rovers
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Patrick Stirling (5 November 1862 − 1925) was a Scottish footballer who played for Doncaster Rovers and was Mayor of Doncaster.[1] His father, also called Patrick Stirling,[1] was Locomotive Superintendent of the Great Northern Railway and designer of the 4-2-2 steam locomotive Stirling single that set speed records during the race to the north.[2][3]

Stirling was born in Kilmarnock in 1862 to parents Patrick and Margaret, and had two elder brothers, Robert and Matthew.[3] With his father entering the employ of the GNR, the family moved to Doncaster, Yorkshire where his sister Jane and brother James were born.[4]

At the age of 18, he was employed as an engine fitter at Great Northern Railway's Doncaster Works[4] and by 1885−86 he was playing for Doncaster Rovers in their early days as a football club.[1]

Stirling gave a lifetime of public service to the town, becoming Mayor of Doncaster in 1914.[1][5]

On 29 April 1891 he was married to Sarah Ann Roberts,[6] and died in Doncaster in 1925 aged 63.[7]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Bluff, Tony (2011). Donny:Doncaster Rovers F.C. The Complete History (1879−2010). Yore Publications. ISBN 978-0-9569848-3-8.
  2. ↑ "Patrick Stirling". LNER Encyclopedia. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  3. 1 2 "The Stirling family". steamindex.com. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  4. 1 2 "Patrick Stirling in household of Patrick Stirling, "England and Wales Census, 1881"". Family Search. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  5. ↑ "Mayors of Doncaster". Doncaster History. Archived from the original on 10 July 2013. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  6. ↑ "Patrick Stirling, "England Marriages, 1538–1973 "". Family Search. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  7. ↑ "Free BMD entry". Free BMD. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
  8. "Patrick Stirling, "Scotland, Births and Baptisms, 1564-1950"". Family Search. Retrieved 29 May 2013.
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